US Patent Issued to FARO TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 11 for "Markerless registration of image and laser scan data" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,665, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to FARO TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Markerless registration of image and laser scan data" was invented by Matthias Wolke (Korntal-Munchingen, Germany) and Jafar Amiri Parian (Schlieren, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first type of measurement device that captures first 2D images, a second type of measurement device that captures 3D scans. A 3D scan includes a point cloud and a second 2D image. The system also includes processors that register the first 2D images. The method includes accessing the 3D scan that records at least a portion of the surrounding e...